Section 12 Definitions.C1

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “Prescribed” means prescribed by the Registrar-General with the concurrence of F1the Secretary of State;

• “Registrar” means, with respect to any death or birth the registrar who is the registrar for the sub-district in which the death or birth takes place;

• F2“approved electronic form” means any form of electronic communication or electronic storage (including an electronic signature) approved by the Registrar General pursuant to section 9(2) of this Act;

• “disposal” means disposal by burial, cremation or any other means, and “disposed of” has a corresponding meaning;

• F3“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;

• “electronic signature” has the meaning given in section 7(2) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;

• “person effecting the disposal” means the person by whom or whose officer the register of burials in which the disposal is to be registered is kept, except that in the case of a burial under the M1Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 in the churchyard or graveyard of a parish or ecclesiastical district the expression “person effecting the disposal” shall be construed as referring to the relative, friend, or legal representative having charge of or being responsible for the burial of the deceased person;

• “still-born” and “still-birth” shall apply to any child which has issued forth from its mother after the F4 twenty-fourth week of pregnancy and which did not at any time after being completely expelled from its mother, breathe or show any other signs of life.